Re: What's up with UTF-8 Support?

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Tony Mechelynck wrote:

> David McRitchie wrote:
> [...]
>> Yipes, I just saw the other reply to look at
>>   http://marathi-kavita.blogspot.com/
>> and if that is what the problem is,  I can't look
>> at it myself, and don't dare install complete font
>> on my system.   I think you would have to have
>> Win XP or higher to have complete UTF-8 fonts.
>
> I can see it correctly in Fx2, but it's in devanagari script and I
> happen to have lots of fonts for many scripts installed on this Linux
> system. To anyone (on any platform) unable to see that page correctly
> (and wishing to), I'd recommend installing a content pack (or a fonts
> package) for the languages of the Indian subcontinent. Depending on
> platform, a reboot may or may not be necessary.

The bad point is that, under Windows at least, if the characters are
missing on the system, there will be a suggestion to download the
language pack that corresponds to the character encoding of the page,
but there is no such hint to the user when the encoding is UTF-8.

Of course this is harder to do, but as UTF-8 becomes the norm, it would
be more and more useful.

FU2 i18n.

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[John Chambers]

>> David McRitchie wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Yipes, I just saw the other reply to look at
>>>   http://marathi-kavita.blogspot.com/
>>> and if that is what the problem is,  I can't look
>>> at it myself, and don't dare install complete font
>>> on my system.   I think you would have to have
>>> Win XP or higher to have complete UTF-8 fonts.

I just noticed this message, and tried the page on a few browsers
on my Mac and linux boxes.  They had opposite problems.  ;-)

On the Mac, the Character Palette showed that I have at least two
Devanagiri fonts installed.  Safari and Opera show the page's contents,
correctly as far as I can tell.  The mozilla-suite browsers (mozilla,
firefox and seamonkey) all show strings of ?s for the page's text,
but have a correct title bar.

On the linux box, Opera shows the page and title bar correctly. The
mozilla-suite browsers show the page's contents correctly, but have
little squares for the chars in the title bar.

It's sorta funny that OSX and linux versions of moz/FF/XM would do
opposite screwups.  The fact that they do some of the text right,
and Opera gets it all right, seems to prove that both systems have
a usable Devanagiri font.

I wonder if there's a known way to make they do both the contents
and the title correctly on both machines.

(The linux box is a server that hasn't been upgraded for a few years,
so maybe current linux releases do a better job.  And it's just the
title bars that are wrong there, which is annoying but not fatal. But
I also find that xterm windows don't handle UTF-8 on the linux box,
while an OSX Terminal window and vi works to edit UTF-8 on OSX.)

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